How to Make Vegetable Puree Baby Food

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Hi! This is Shanis Winland on behalf of Expert Village. And in our video series of making your own baby food, we are going to talk to you today about how to make vegetables for your baby. I'd like to start with a really simple vegetable, squash. And I've already washed this vegetable really well, so make sure you do that before you use anything to make your baby food. This first thing I do, and this is pretty easy to do, I just cut the corners off the squash. Then cut it up into small pieces. When your first starting out making baby food, eventually everything you make is going to be turned into a puree for your baby. The smaller the pieces, the faster it cooks for you. And I'm a busy working mother, so I like to cut them up as small as possible to make my prep time for my baby food really quick. Now you can cook lots of different vegetables this way, you can do broccoli, you can do cauliflower, you can do carrots. If you want to do something like potatoes you would do it a little bit differently, and we have a separate video on that. So all you do is, I have a pot that has a steamer inside of it, I add my vegetables into the steamer and then I add some water to the pot. Now you only need enough water just to cover the bottom of the pot and the steamer. And then just simply put it on the stove, and let it start boiling, and add the lid to it. Bring it to a boil and let those vegetables get really soft. It should be pretty quick for squash because it's already a soft vegetable. So we'll come and check on that in a minute. So as you can see our vegetables are steaming up really nicely here and the way I like to check if they are done is I just use a fork and see if it is really easy to mash the vegetables inside. They are, so I think we are going to take them off the stove, and get them ready to store. Once you take the vegetables off the stove, you just simply take them out of the pan and add them to your food processor or blender. Gotta get all the good chunks in there. Now the one thing to remember about baby food is you want to use some of the water that you cooked your vegetables in to store or mix in with the vegetables themselves because when you cook them, you cook some of the nutrients into the water, so you need to add that back in when your are making your food. And you don't need to add anything to your baby food, baby has a wonderful taste palate and doesn't need the extra salts or spices.

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